Donald Trump is working hard to destroy the spiritual merit that protects the U.S.A. from a major war or from a plague.

Precedent: When King David sinned the prophet told the King to choose from one of 3 punishments

To quote II Shmuel {Samuel} 24:13

13 And Gad came to David and he told him, and he said to him, “[Do you prefer] that seven years of famine in your land shall come upon you? or three months that you shall flee before your oppressor while he pursues you? or, that there be three days pestilence in your land? Now know and consider what I shall reply to Him that sent me.

David chose the option of receiving a plague.

Although David had sinned what caused the people to also deserve the punishment of a plague?

The last verse of chapter 24 hints at both their sin and their remedy.

25 And David built there an altar to the Lord, and he offered up burnt-offerings and peace offerings. And the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.

Radak’s Explanation on the Last Verse of this Chapter

25) And the Lord was entreated for the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel. – And G-d accepted the prayer of the inhabitants of the land, and the midrashic statement about this incident, All these thousands that fell in the days of David only fell because they did not demand the Temple and behold the matter is a rule of logic from the simple case to the severe. And what if these that it wasn’t in their days and it was not destroyed in their days fell on account that they did not demand it. We that it was in our days and it was destroyed in our days, all the more so. Therefore the elders and the prophets enacted to implant this in the mouths of Israel to pray three times a day, return your Divine Presence and your Kingdom to Zion and the sacrificial service to Jerusalem, Amen, may it be his will, for eternity.

At Some Point in the Future the Prophet Yishayahu/Isaiah Chapter 60 (12,13) Predicts Destruction of Some of the Nations And Singles Out Their Crime

For the nation and the kingdom that shall not serve you shall perish, and the nations shall be destroyed.

The glory of the Lebanon shall come to you, box trees, firs, and cypresses together, to glorify the place of My sanctuary, and the place of My feet I will honor.

The Wikipedia Model of the Second Temple

Isn’t It the Messiah’s Job to Build the Temple Absolving Us of Responsibility?

When the Safed (Tzfat) faction of the disciples of the Vilna Gaon sent out emissaries hoping to find the remnants of the Ten Lost Tribes in order to get their help in moving the redemption forward, they sent out a letter defining what they considered to be the Vilna Gaon’s ideology.
https://www.sefaria.org.il/Vilna_Gaon’s_students_letter_to_the_Lost_Tribes_of_Israel.16?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en

Furthermore, we have a tradition from the sages of the Talmud (maaser sheni chapter 8) that the temple will be rebuilt before the dynasty of David will be restored, and R Shimon bar Yohai also revealed to us that Hashem first rebuilds Jerusalem and then gathers in the exiles {end of quote}

Rashi Also Derives from the Biblical Text That the Redeemer Does Not Come While Zion is in Ruins

Yishayahu – Isaiah – Chapter 59 verse 20

And a redeemer shall come to Zion, and to those who repent of rebellious transgression in Yaakov {Jacob}, says Hashem.

Rashi deduces And a redeemer shall come to Zion: As long as Zion is in ruins, the redeemer has not yet come.

What About the Possibility That the Messiah Will Build the Temple before He is Recognized as Messiah?

There are indeed a number of different scenarios on how the Temple will be rebuilt. But even this scenario, becomes more likely to become reality, when the nation first awakens to want the Temple. Indeed according to Ramban, this was exactly the problem in Israel until King David decided that a permanent Temple was needed. That is to say they shoved away the issue of the Temple to the distant future instead of trying to do their best at arriving at solutions.

Gentiles Should Also Use Political Pressure for the Building of the Temple.

There are a number of possible scenarios that predict in which manner the Temple will be built in the future. Here I will present a scenario that is not so well known, without predicting if indeed it will actually occur.

Rabbeinu Bacheyei brings this scenario down in his commentary to Vayikra/Leviticus Chapter 11

The Pig (Chazir) has an external Kosher sign (cloven hooves) but lacks the internal Kosher sign to make it Kosher. It serves as a symbol of the hypocrite, who tries to convince everyone he’s Kosher when he is not.

And Midrash Tanchuma contends, why was this kingdom compared in a parable to the Chazir animal. For in the future the Holy One Blessed be He will put back on them (in Hebrew, LehaChazir) the strict attribute of justice. There are other versions in which it is written in them: That in the future it will put will put back (in Hebrew, LehaChazir) the crown to its old position. And the matter is that the 2 Temples were built by Israel, the First Temple, Shlomo (Solomon) built, who was from the seed of Yehuda (Judah), the 2nd Temple, Zerubavel built, who was also from the seed of Yehuda (Judah) for it was stated (Zechariah 4:8) “the hands of Zerubavel have founded”, etc. and it was done by Coresh (Cyrus) who gave permission in this matter; but the 3rd Temple, in the future will be built by this nation. And that is what they stated: “That in the future it will put will put back (in Hebrew, LehaChazir) the crown to its old position”. Because this one (kingdom) destroyed it. {end of quote}

In Jewish thought, Christianity generally came to be associated with the Kingdom of Rome, because that religion became the official religion of the oppressive empire. I do not know if this Midrash believed the biological descendants of Rome would restore the Temple or did it mean the religion adopted by Rome would restore the Temple to the Jews.

What actions are being performed by the Trump Administration that destroys the spiritual merit that protects the U.S.A. from a major war or from a plague?

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